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Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)

Each year, approximately 150 potential transportation infrastructure projects totaling more than one billion dollars are submitted to the MPO for possible funding in the MPO’s rolling, five-year capital funding document, the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). Intersection improvements, Complete Streets redesigns, bicycle and pedestrian connections, highway reconstruction, and transit maintenance and expansion projects all are eligible.

Because, usually, only $75 million to $90 million is available in any given year, the MPO must select which projects will receive federal and state roadway funding for each of the next five years. It falls upon the MPO to gather, evaluate, and prioritize all possible projects eligible for its share of federal transportation dollars.

On May 25, 2017, the MPO endorsed the new TIP (pdf)(html), which allocates funding for the next five federal fiscal years (FFYs), 2018–22. Thank you to those who submitted comments and participated in the document’s development. The Federal Highway and Federal Transit Administrations are expected to approve the new TIP in the fall of 2017.

Amendments to the Current TIP (FFYs 2017–21)

On August 17, 2017, the MPO board voted to approve a fourth amendment to the FFYs 2017–21 TIP. Amendment Four to the FFYs 2017-21 TIP affects two statewide-funded projects and results in increased funding for both, as well as a change in project description and cash flow. The changes approved in Amendment Four also included a minor adjustment to a third project, resulting in decreased funding and a new funding source.

For a summary of the changes proposed as part of Amendment Four, please refer to this table.

On May 25, 2017, the MPO board voted to approve a third amendment to the FFYs 2017–21 TIP. Amendment Three accommodates cost increases and other changes to highway and transit projects programmed in FFY 2017 that are necessary in order for projects to be advertised for construction in this fiscal year.

For a summary of the changes in Amendment Three, please refer to these tables. (For information on the MBTA’s funding programs for FY 2017, please refer to this table.)

On March 2, 2017, the MPO board voted to approve a second amendment to the FFYs 2017–21 TIP. Amendment Two programmed funds, in the highway element of the TIP, that came to the Boston region from a federal redistribution of funds, which occurred last August.

Other changes in Amendment Two included the programming of project cost increases, repurposed earmarks, funds transferred to the Federal Highway Administration’s Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division, and funding for new roadway construction projects.

For a summary of the changes in Amendment Two, please refer to this table, which explains the effect of the amendment on each project. The table also shows adjustments approved by the MPO: the addition of project identification numbers for earmarks repurposed in Amendment One, and the addition of information about the years during which the advanced construction financing method will be used for the Green Line Extension project.

On December 15, 2016, the MPO board voted to approve an amendment to the FFYs 2017-21 TIP. Amendment One includes changes and additions to the transit elements in FFYs 2017-21 in order to better align the Boston Region MPO’s TIP with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s Capital Investment Plan, while providing additional project-level detail for MBTA capital investment programs in FFY 2017. (For additional information on the MBTA’s funding programs for FFYs 2017-21, please refer to this table.) Other changes that were incorporated in Amendment One include the repurposing of earmark funds in the highway element of the statewide program.

The Current TIP (FFYs 2017–21)

On July 28, 2016, the MPO endorsed the current TIP (pdf)(html), which allocates funding for the next five federal fiscal years (FFYs), 2017–21. Thank you to those who submitted comments and participated in the document’s development. The MPO received approval of the TIP from the Federal Highway and Federal Transit Administrations on October 20, 2016. The FFYs 2017–21 TIP will be in effect until the end of the federal fiscal year (September 30, 2017).